The shadow whisper

It’s whispers.
Can you hear them?
I don’t want to,
but they force me to.

Sitting in an empty room,
with no one—
just a cigarette in my hand.

Every time it touches my lips,
it kills me
and makes me want to avoid it—

I know that cigarette is not good for me,
but I like doing something
I know is going to kill me.

But he likes that I do that—
killing myself, he whispered to me,
saying, “Can we switch places?”

I said, “How can I get into the wall?
You are a shadow.”

But how…
I was talking to a shadow
in a room
completely empty and dark.

The whispers say to me:
“Look at me.
Look at the darkness,
and feel both sides of it
that you don’t think exist.”

I thought something was wrong.
I kept hearing him
until he said:
“Come closer…
to someone else in the room,
because my name isn’t dead.”

When I turned on the light,
I saw nothing
but my shadow dancing in front of me,
my body frozen, watching.

And when I looked back,
something was coming out of the wall
with a cigarette,
saying to me:
“I like doing something
I know is going to kill me."

Copyright © | Year Posted 2025



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Date: 9/6/2025 12:04:00 PM
Hello The bloody Pen, This sounds like a dream you had. or a nightmare. Well the Shadow was right about the cigarette are not good for anyone. it kills the lungs. Causes cancer. Blessings my friend. /Darlene/
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 9/8/2025 5:08:00 AM
Hello The Bloody Pen, Yes , you are right, there is no difference between. Blessings my friend. /Da them. Blessings my friend. /Darlene/
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Date: 9/8/2025 4:42:00 AM
There is no difference between that thing and the man who were smoking because both knew it's killing them. Have a great day Darlene
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